Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-30
blaze in q tenement Rou.o.

CHICAGO; III, July % At 2:4Q /
o'clock this mJIaing 1ite was discovered |
81 the bakery OF Chris H-fen t 3lG5 |
Archer avenue, : three story and base !
Ynent brick tenement. For & time the
ire smJuld1Ted ard nothing serious was
taJu-a. oi 1t. Shortly alter 3 o'clock ii
was discovered that e number Of peopl. !
LIVING in the building were either dead or
dvlng from the eff CTS OF the SMOKE and
danes. The tice!aen and police hurried
into the bulldog and soon began bearing
out the UNCONSCIOUS bodies until eleven
u.0Dle had been removed. l. was then
found that M5ri2 Trugo, sged two years,
wss dead. The liol OF injured people Is
SIS follows:
Nelson Trugo, Adel Trug0, Nelson
TRUCE, Jr., aged twelve years Della rTugo,
aga nine ye4rs: Elza TIugo, eyed four
teen: Joseph T.ugo, aged ten
vars; nir. Bonner, Mrs. Bonner,
PluIp Bonner, aged seven years; I'M
known girl Mrs. rrugD and Mrs. Bon
uer Suu three Others viii die. The lire
started il Hefen'5 bssershop n the
basement and w05 caused by pot of
boiling lard being upset. Hef5n ana his
family occu 3iei the second story, but
they 6li escaped IN safety. The ur-
f5rJungte Trugo family resided on the
floor 210ve 10 the rear, while the Bon
ners lived on the tsp floor. Four Of the
surviving Trug1 children were badly
sue3cated anG their recovery is doubtful
Melon TrGg2 attempted 10 lower his
wife an5 tNO-y ear-Ol1 baby out Of the
second story window, but the rope was
snort and The wOman and child were
SUSPENDED in mid-air surrounded by the
rlmes. Captain C0wau OF Truck II
seeIrg their parilous position rushed up
iadder sid attempted to rescue them, Dut
sudden CutbUr-t Of smoke enveloptd
them, and the captain, wCman aud child
fell in the Games below. Wiling hands
dragged them ont and the captain was
found terribly burned about the faCe,
hands and feet. He also inhaled 6 large
quantity OF hot air, and is though to be
fatally injured. The mother YVES so bad
" bQrneQ that she succUm5ed 10 her IL
iuIias 3 few minutes later. a young girl
named AIMS Drew, aged eighteen, VINO
boarded " tn the Tru@o family, Was car
ri down tn stairs by fireman. She
is bAdly Injured, but will recover.
The story Of the attempted rescue &
Mrs. Trugo ard her babe is described in
lutar accounts as che OF peculiar horror
ana pathos. The police and tiJemen hsd
rescued her husband and four eldest
children, but she was in some manner,
readily GsCri5s5Ie TO the confusion CT the
mOmtnt, oCSleC ed and left with her two
year-old baby. The poor woman resorted
to window. A fireman saw her, and
plugging back through the smoke he re-
JurnrdTo her chamber. All escape from
the rear with Sucn q burden as d wouan
ana child was impossible. lie thought Cf
the bedcoId ana tearing it out bound the
woman and ner baby with i. ard pushed
them through Inc window. He PLAYED
the rope cut until from the heat and
smoke he was ready To fall upon TIE floor,
Ylen he fastened the upper end TO TIE
bedpost aud fed, far from accomplishing
his gallant purpose. He ha6 but too
surely compas>ed the destruction OF
those ne sought to save. His rope was
too short, and Instead of dropping the
woman and child TO the ground or within
reach Of those below, De had suspended
them in 'front.' Of first h0or wjudow,
from which the ire poured as
from 2 furnace door. She swung
there, ten or twelve feet from
the ground, writing, shrieking, strug-
S..uS, IS The lire swept If her garments,
choked her, ana actually broiled her
alive with he baby in her arms By the
most singular fatality the flames which
Were destroying her left the rope intact.
!. 2ecsme Z necessity, if not TO ssve the
woman 10 al least remove the revolving
sight This duty was assumed By Cap
tsiG William II. Cowan Of Truck No. 5,
wlO might have ordered another man to
the tsSk, but VINO chose to chsnce the
fate which he was told by thr spectators
awaited him. se;Zing 4 ladder he threw
i up 70 the blsZiDg window,
and with an sX mounted and
stood on lis blazing rung. He
deliberately entered the flames. and as
they encIrcled him frcm helmet to the
boots be struck at the rope. He could
not see and struck with inaccurate
aim. Once, twice, as the clothing fell
from him, he struck in vain. At the
third stroke the blade cut the rope. Sim
ultaueously the burning ladder broke,
and three blazing human beings fell to
the ground. The baby WAS slready dead,
the mother dying few hours lster,
and the Captsln lies in his home IN what
IS thought 10 be his death sgonies. Two
oak,r5, Essen and Ansbtcher, who are
believed TO be responsible for the neglect
which caused the fire, have been arrested.
The police say the pair becsme drowsy
from drink and instead of watching The
store fell into stupor from woich they
only awakened VIII they and the ten
suits sOoYe were at the mercy CT the
lanes.